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The usual plating disaster: Seared yellowfin tuna (dusted with La Boite's Lula blend) over a market salad (lettuce, heirloom tomatoes, cucumber, sweet onion) with a soy/ginger house-made vinaigrette. Fancy Japanese rice.

Gave it the old college try this morning... With chives and parsley or half fines herbes. Needs some help in the final shaping.

Oh yeah it does!

Are you not planning on including any vegetable tapas; artichoke hearts/baby artichokes are great stewed in some stock/sherry/etc. And there are always some sort of mushroom dish in tapas bars.

Maybe try Midwood Smokehouse? When we visit my sister in Greensboro this coming Thanksgiving, I plan on driving to Lexington for the BBQ there...I've had some darn good 'cue in various NC locations!

Actually... Wine Doggy Bag State Laws

Keller’s a pain in the ass.

As has been mentioned, good year for tomatoes. So why not have them for breakfast? é Open-faced heirloom tomato sandwiches. A few slices of good Comté alongside.

It's a pretty good tomato (and corn) season here in the Northeast. Pasta w/raw, small heirloom tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella.

California's Rice Royalty is Stepping Down When I read the news, I had to go down the block and pick up a bag...

That's a pretty nice restaurant price on the bottle of Lauer Riesling.

My favorite prep/cook for lamb chops...if I only had a grill!

Have some really lovely heirloom cherry tomatoes, along with green and wax beans. Made a walnut-miso dressing, from Hiroko Shimbo's classic The Japanese Kitchen (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) cookbook. What in Spain might be called socarrat, in Japan is most likely called okoge. My okoge game was strong last night, in this donabe rice with salmon, halibut and hijiki.

Red and green tomatoes, fancy Lani's cucumber, sweet onion. Pasta al pesto with Romano beans.

Generally, start root vegetables in cold water.